# Report 2020-10

## News

 - [Spotify has a patent for personality tracking technology – and it’s pretty creepy stuff](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-has-a-patent-for-personality-tracking-technology-and-its-pretty-creepy/)
 - [Online avatar service Gravatar allows mass collection of user info](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/online-avatar-service-gravatar-allows-mass-collection-of-user-info/)
 - [Sonos is spying on me… (and you)](https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/sonos-is-spying-on-me-and-you/)
 - [Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors](https://www.zdnet.com/article/five-eyes-governments-india-and-japan-make-new-call-for-encryption-backdoors/)
 - [GDPR watchdog’s investigation finds that tracking and consent pop-ups used by Google and other major websites and apps are unlawful.](https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-watchdogs-investigation-finds-that-tracking-and-consent-pop-ups-used-by-google-and-other-major-websites-and-apps-are-unlawful/)
 - [Mall real estate company collected 5 million images of shoppers, say privacy watchdogs](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cadillac-fairview-5-million-images-1.5781735?cmp=rss)

## Data Breaches

 - [Germany fines H&M 35 million euros for data protection breaches](https://cybernews.com/news/germany-fines-hm-35-million-euros-for-data-protection-breaches/)
 - [Chowbus delivery service breached, hacker emails data to users](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chowbus-delivery-service-breached-hacker-emails-data-to-users/)
 - [Australian social news platform leaks 80,000 user records ](https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/109108/data-breach/snewpit-leaks-80000-records.html)
 - [Children and parent info exposed in Georgia DHS data breach](https://www.zdnet.com/article/children-and-parent-info-exposed-in-georgia-dhs-data-breach/)
 - [Card details for 3 million Dickey's customers posted on carding forum](https://www.zdnet.com/article/card-details-for-3-million-dickeys-customers-posted-on-carding-forum/)

## Paper/Report

 - [Discover the advertising web with Ads.txt files](https://linc.cnil.fr/webpub-adstxt-sellersjson/en/ads_study.html)
 - [Discover the advertising web with Sellers.json files](https://linc.cnil.fr/webpub-adstxt-sellersjson/en/sellers_study.html)
 - [La domination des marchés publicitaires de Google](https://www.pixeldetracking.com/fr/la-domination-publicitaire-de-google)
 - [ACCC commissioned research: Digital platform services inquiry 2020-2025](https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/inquiries-ongoing/digital-platform-services-inquiry-2020-2025/accc-commissioned-research)
 - [InformationCommissioner’s Office: Investigation into data protection compliance in the direct marketing data broking sector](https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-taken/2618470/investigation-into-data-protection-compliance-in-the-direct-marketing-data-broking-sector.pdf)
 - [AlgorithmWatch: Automating Society Report 2020](https://automatingsociety.algorithmwatch.org/)
